The attempt in Yekaterinburg was significant for another reason: Czar Nicholas II and his family were killed there in 1918. The Russian Orthodox Church canonized them in 2000 — and conservative ...

Controversy is stirring in Russia over a film in the works about the last Russian tsar’s affair with a famous actress, with nationalists threatening to burn theaters that plan to screen Matilda ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's largest operator of movie theaters says it has decided not to screen a film about the love affair between Russia's last czar and a ballerina because of safety concerns in ...

These are the best movies about the Russian Revolution, which allow the audience to witness the fall of the last Tsars and the birth of a new nation. 'Nicholas and Alexandra' (1971) Directed by ...

MOSCOW – Russia's Culture Ministry says that a controversial historical film about the last Russian czar's affair with a ballerina has been cleared for release. "Matilda," which is about ...

I hadn’t realized it, but Czar Nicholas II was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church (in the West in 1981, back in Russia in 2000). Now a forthcoming Russian movie,”Matilda,” about his ...

The movie is Disney’s second film shot in the Russian language for the local market after Kniga masterov (The Book of Masters), which was released in October 2009 and grossed $10.8 million ...

In Russia, a movie about the last czar and his love affair with a ballerina has provoked a violent reaction and left many in Russia's arts community worried about their creative freedom.

Russian filmmakers have been told they must make movies on state-approved topics if they expect to get government funding. Vladimir Medinsky, a Kremlin loyalist who was appointed minister of ...

Czar Nicholas II, Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov, known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer, was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from November 1, 1894 until ...

Reporting from St. Petersburg — Alexei Uchitel sits in the elegant lobby cafe of the historic Hotel Astoria in St. Petersburg and answers an endless stream of phone calls about his … ...